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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 08, 2021
Filed:
Jul. 11, 2019
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Andrew Bernat, Mountain View, CA (US);
Timothy Brennan, San Francisco, CA (US);
Alan Driscoll, Fremont, CA (US);
Grigori Inozemtsev, San Jose, CA (US);
Pure Storage, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Distributing management responsibilities for a storage system that includes a storage array controller and a plurality of storage devices, including: identifying a plurality of elements in the storage system; for each of the plurality of elements in the storage system, creating a distributed manager, wherein each distributed manager is configured for gathering information describing the state of the associated element in the storage system, determining an action to perform against the associated element in the storage system, and executing an approved action against the associated element in the storage system; and creating a distributed management hierarchy that includes each of the distributed managers.